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Mississauga, Ontario, Ca

Lead comprehensive MDM and governance initiatives, focusing on data integrity and platform strategy alignment.

Mississauga, Ontario, Ca

West Springfield, Massachusetts, Us

Frisco, Texas, Us

Led data strategy engagements to assist in their transitions to data- driven organizations.

Bloomfield, Ct, Us

Data Governance! Implemented master data management methodology with gold copy standards for ensuring higher returns on data investments• Sales person and territory hierarchies• Product taxonomy, ERP and web product hierarchies• Customer with bill-to/ship-to hierarchies ! Defined a common data set across all three business units for providing daily operational reportingo PIM! Completed phase 1• Developed import process and data map to bring supplier product data into PIM and send it to ERPs! Completed Phase 2• Developed import process and data map to bring rich product data andassets into PIM and send to website! Currently revising PIM to accommodate website consolidation of all three businessunits to one site o ETL! Created algorithms for reporting inconsistent and incorrect data back to true sources for correction increasing data quality and completeness to 98% on averageo BI and Analytics! Migrated entire business unit off Cognos Analytics to Microsoft SSRS and PowerBIo Database Architecture! Reduced database and data footprint by 35% freeing up 16tb of SAN space! Reduced the number of databases by 40% decreasing possible sources forinconsistent data! Migrated 36 databases into the virtual environment eliminating the last physicalservero Data Modeling! Implemented change control processes for all database changes o Data Conversion! Converted data, including history, from SX.e ERP to an existing business unit ERP with 87% quality rate! Converted data, including history, from SX.e ERP to a different business unit ERP with a 99% quality rate

Bloomfield, Ct, Us

Data Conversion! Lead team that executed our plan to convert all data to SX.e ERP o PIM! Lead third party evaluation to define the business value of a PIM! Lead team that selected Stibo Step through RFP process to become our PIM! Lead team that selected Stibo partner Amplifi to implement Stibo Step! Defined data model and attributes to support products, their rich data and assetso ETL! Lead team that reduced nightly ETL process time from 5 hours to two hours whileincreasing data completeness by 42% o BI and Analytics! Standardized basic reporting terms across three business units through the data governance council! Identified common customers (47% matches) across three business unitso Data Architecture! Introduced first data lineage model to the organization (product data)! Built the first transactional data model for a small business unit to prove value • Senior Manager, Data Management (Aug 2016 – Dec 2018) o Data Conversion! Lead data team that built the plan to convert a 30-year old ERP to Infor SX.e ERPo Data Governance! Introduced data governance to the organization! Formed cross-functional team to build the data governance council with executivebuy-ino Data Architecture! Introduced data architecture to the organization! Created example of defining a product o Data Modeling! Created a model of the product domain complete with entities, attributes, relationships and definitions

Austin, Texas, Us

Manage consulting practice consisting of Oracle GoldenGate, Exadata, System, Performance and Architecture (SPA) Solution Architects, Data Architects and Engineers. Practice capabilities included data governance, MDM, platform migrations, highly available infrastructures, active-active infrastructures and data centers and data offloading.

Austin, Texas, Us

Designed a $7mm centralized, shared platform infrastructure to consolidate hundreds of databases in a statewide, multi-agency consolidation that saved $30mm in the first year. Also designed the highly available, high performance infrastructure and lead the migration of a 25,000 officer booking and arrest system to that infrastructure that yielded only planned downtime and a 42% performance increase in the first year.

Austin, Texas, Us

Was the first client (Purdue Parma), and then director (Oracle), in the program. Lead several Insights that all yielded 30-50% higher sales by understanding customer’s business and offering non-branded solutions. This lead to higher utilization of all Oracle products and fostered better customer relationships. It also lead to supported sales professionals meet or exceed their quotas.

Austin, Texas, Us

Designed the platform architecture and led the migration for a statewide Child Support Enforcement System that enabled timely processing of state-issued financing, legal proceedings and federal reporting. Supported sales transactions for a digital media company that included moving a key database infrastructure to Oracle from a competitor. From this $1.5mm sale, future sales totaled $8mm in the two following years while reducing customer costs by 30%.